Skills 4 SE

General-purpose LinkedIn automation – fetch profiles, search people and companies, send messages, manage connections, create posts, and more. Use when the user wants to interact with LinkedIn.

Generates comprehensive test scenarios from requirements including BDD/Gherkin scenarios, unit tests, integration tests, and end-to-end test cases. Use when converting requirements, user stories, or specifications into testable scenarios with full coverage including happy paths, error cases, edge cases, and boundary conditions. Outputs structured test suites ready for implementation.

Update Java test classes and methods to work with new code versions after refactoring or modifications. Use when code changes break existing tests due to signature changes, refactoring, or behavior modifications. Takes old and new code versions plus old tests as input, and outputs updated tests that compile and pass against the new code. Handles method signature changes, class refactoring, assertion updates, and mock modifications.

Automatically reduces bug-triggering test cases to minimal form while preserving the failure. Use when debugging with large, complex test cases that need simplification, reproducing bugs with minimal examples, or creating regression tests from verbose failure scenarios. Takes a failing test and systematically removes unnecessary inputs, steps, assertions, and code using delta debugging and other reduction algorithms. Supports unit tests, integration tests, input files, and multiple programming languages (Python, JavaScript, Java, C/C++).

Analyzes test suites to identify redundant and duplicate test cases using coverage analysis, semantic similarity, and execution results. Use this skill when you need to reduce test suite size, identify redundant tests, optimize test execution time, analyze test coverage overlap, find tests with identical behavior, or improve test suite maintainability. Triggers when users ask to deduplicate tests, find redundant test cases, reduce test suite size, identify duplicate tests, or optimize test coverage.

Identifies non-deterministic or unreliable tests through static code analysis and test result analysis. Use when Claude needs to find flaky tests, analyze test reliability, or investigate intermittent test failures. Supports Python (pytest, unittest) and Java (JUnit, TestNG) test frameworks. Trigger when users mention "flaky tests", "intermittent failures", "non-deterministic tests", "unreliable tests", or ask to "find flaky tests", "analyze test stability", or "why tests fail randomly".

Updates Python test code to work with new versions of the code being tested. Use when Claude needs to: (1) Update tests after code changes, (2) Fix broken tests due to signature changes, (3) Update assertions to match new behavior, (4) Add test cases for new functionality, (5) Analyze code differences and their test impact, (6) Run tests and fix failures based on error messages. Takes old code, new code, and old tests as input, outputs updated tests that pass.

Automatically generates comprehensive unit tests for functions, classes, and modules. Use when you need to create tests for Python (pytest, unittest) or Java (JUnit, TestNG) code. Generates tests with comprehensive coverage including happy paths, edge cases, and error conditions. Analyzes existing test patterns in the codebase to match style and conventions. Supports mocking, parameterized tests, fixtures, and follows best practices for each framework.

Generates automated test oracles to verify correct software behavior. Creates assertion-based oracles (expected values), property-based oracles (invariants), differential oracles (comparing implementations), and metamorphic oracles (input transformations). Use when you need to generate assertions for test cases, identify invariants that should always hold, compare new vs legacy implementations, create metamorphic test relationships, validate function correctness, or improve test coverage with better verification strategies. Supports Python (pytest, unittest, hypothesis) and Java (JUnit, property testing).

Generate unit tests with proper mocking for Python (unittest.mock/pytest) or Java (Mockito/JUnit) code. Use when users request test generation, unit tests with mocks, or testing code that has external dependencies like database calls, API requests, file I/O, or network operations. Automatically identifies dependencies to mock and creates executable, maintainable test code.

Generate implementation code that passes existing unit tests. Use when the user provides test files (Python pytest/unittest, Java JUnit/TestNG) and asks Claude to implement the code to make those tests pass. Supports full TDD workflow - analyzing tests, generating implementation, running tests, debugging failures, and iterating until all tests pass.

Removes unnecessary code from a repository while preserving exactly the behavior exercised by a given test suite. Use this skill when you need to debloat, slim down, or remove unused code from a codebase based on test coverage. The skill analyzes which code elements (files, classes, functions, methods, branches, imports) are exercised by tests, identifies unreachable or unused code, and safely removes it while ensuring all tests continue to pass. Triggers when users ask to remove unused code, debloat based on tests, eliminate dead code guided by test coverage, or slim down a repository to only test-required functionality.

Analyzes test suites and suggests optimal test execution order based on code change impact and project requirements. Use when optimizing CI/CD pipelines, deciding which tests to run before committing, or selecting critical tests under time constraints. Prioritizes tests by analyzing recently modified files, test dependencies, and coverage overlap. Outputs detailed rankings with priority scores and reasoning to help teams run the most impactful tests first.

Generate comprehensive test case documentation from test code, test framework output, existing test docs, and source code context. Use when documenting test suites, creating test specifications, generating test coverage reports, onboarding developers to testing practices, or preparing QA documentation. Analyzes test functions (pytest, unittest) to extract test names, docstrings, assertions, and organization, then produces structured markdown with both overview-level summaries and detailed test case specifications including purpose, preconditions, steps, expected results, and test data. Triggers when users ask to document tests, generate test specifications, create test reports, summarize test coverage, or explain what tests do.

Analyze failing tests to detect functional bugs in code. Takes repository and failing test output as input, analyzes execution behavior, assertions, and stack traces to identify suspicious code regions and root causes. Use when debugging test failures, investigating regression bugs, or understanding why tests fail. Explains the bug mechanism, identifies affected code, and suggests fixes based on test expectations vs actual behavior.

Automatically analyzes configuration files to detect inconsistencies, conflicts, missing keys, and divergent values across environments, versions, or modules. Use when managing multi-environment configurations, detecting config drift, validating configuration changes, or ensuring consistency across microservices. Supports JSON, YAML, TOML, INI, XML, .env, and properties files. Identifies security issues like hardcoded secrets and provides actionable resolution guidance.

Generate integration tests for multiple interacting components in Python. Use when testing interactions between: (1) Multiple services or APIs (REST/GraphQL endpoints, microservices), (2) Database operations with repositories/ORMs (SQLAlchemy, Django ORM), (3) External services (payment gateways, email services, third-party APIs), (4) Message queues and event-driven systems, (5) Full stack workflows (API + database + business logic). Provides test structure templates, fixtures, test data builders, and patterns for pytest-based integration testing.

Generate test cases using metamorphic testing by applying transformations based on metamorphic properties. Use when you need to expand test suites, test programs without oracles, validate mathematical or algorithmic properties, or detect subtle bugs through input-output relationships. The skill takes a program, original test cases, and metamorphic properties as input, generates new test cases by applying transformations, executes tests, verifies outputs satisfy properties, reports violations and anomalies, and outputs an expanded test suite with property coverage summary. Supports multiple programming languages and property types.

Collect, normalize, and structure execution traces from instrumented programs (strace, ltrace) into JSON format for downstream analysis. Use when working with system call traces, library call traces, or execution logs that need to be analyzed for debugging, test case reproduction, or verification. Supports parsing strace/ltrace output, filtering noise, extracting debug information, and preparing traces for bug analysis or reproduction workflows.

Generate setup scripts and instructions for development environments across platforms. Use when: (1) Setting up new development machines (Python, Node.js, Docker, databases), (2) Creating automated setup scripts for team onboarding, (3) Need cross-platform setup instructions (macOS, Linux, Windows), (4) Installing development tools and dependencies, (5) Configuring version managers and package managers. Provides executable setup scripts, platform-specific guides, and tool installation instructions.

Instrument programs (Python, C/C++, Java) to capture snapshots of key program states at runtime, including variables, memory, and call stacks. Use when you need to debug complex issues, reproduce test cases, prepare traces for formal verification, or analyze program execution. Supports manual instrumentation points, automatic function/method instrumentation, and conditional triggers. Outputs structured JSON snapshots for debugging, replay, and verification workflows.

Analyze proof states in Isabelle or Coq and suggest applicable tactics to make progress. Use when users need help with: (1) Choosing the next tactic in an interactive proof, (2) Understanding what tactics apply to their current goal, (3) Getting unstuck in a proof, (4) Learning which tactics work for specific goal structures (conjunctions, implications, induction, etc.). Provides 3-5 ranked tactic suggestions with explanations for intermediate-level proofs in both Isabelle/Isar and Coq.

Generate targeted test inputs to reach specific code paths and hard-to-reach behaviors in Python code. Use when: (1) Targeting uncovered branches or specific execution paths, (2) Need coverage-guided test generation, (3) Want to leverage LLM understanding of code semantics for meaningful test inputs, (4) Testing boundary conditions and edge cases systematically, (5) Combining symbolic reasoning with fuzzing. Provides path analysis, constraint solving, coverage-guided strategies, and LLM-driven semantic generation for comprehensive test input creation.

Optimize test suites using mutation testing to maximize mutation kill rate with minimal tests. Use when you need to reduce test suite size while maintaining quality, identify redundant tests, improve mutation coverage, or validate test effectiveness. The skill analyzes test coverage, execution intervals, and redundancy using mutation operators, selects or generates a minimal subset of tests that maximizes mutation kill rate, and outputs an optimized test suite with detailed reports showing killed and surviving mutants. Supports multiple programming languages and mutation testing frameworks.

Analyzes and verifies semantic equivalence between two functions, classes, or modules by examining control flow, data flow, and observable behavior. Use when comparing code implementations (refactored vs original, different implementations of same functionality, migration verification), determining if two code artifacts produce identical behavior, identifying behavioral differences between code versions, or validating that code changes preserve semantics. Supports formal reasoning and symbolic execution approaches.

Automatically instruments source code to collect runtime information such as function calls, branch decisions, variable values, and execution traces while preserving original program semantics. Use when users need to: (1) Add logging or tracing to code for debugging, (2) Collect runtime execution data for analysis, (3) Monitor function calls and control flow, (4) Track variable values during execution, (5) Generate execution traces for testing or profiling. Supports Python, Java, JavaScript, and C/C++ with configurable instrumentation levels.

Validate API consistency between two versions of Java libraries. Use when you need to compare API behavior, signatures, and exceptions between Java library versions to identify breaking changes, incompatible modifications, and behavior differences. The skill performs static analysis of Java code, compares method signatures, class definitions, interface changes, parameter types, return types, exception declarations, and generates a detailed JSON report with breaking changes, warnings, and migration guidance. Supports Java libraries and packages.

Automatically generate regression tests for Java codebases by analyzing changes between old and new code versions. Use when users need to: (1) Generate tests after refactoring or code changes, (2) Ensure previously tested behavior still works in new versions, (3) Cover modified or newly added code paths, (4) Migrate existing tests to work with updated APIs or signatures, (5) Maintain test coverage during code evolution. Supports JUnit and TestNG frameworks with unit tests, parameterized tests, and exception testing patterns.

Automatically generates executable tests that reproduce reported bugs from issue reports and code repositories. Use when users need to: (1) Create a test that reproduces a bug described in an issue report, (2) Generate failing tests from bug descriptions, stack traces, or error messages, (3) Validate bug reports by creating reproducible test cases, (4) Convert issue reports into executable regression tests. Takes a repository and issue report as input and produces test code that reliably triggers the reported bug.

Generate implementation code and tests from written specifications. Use when the user provides specifications (natural language descriptions, formal specs, requirements documents, API specs) and asks Claude to implement the described functionality. Supports data structures, algorithms, classes, functions, and includes automatic test generation to validate implementation against specification.

Instruments code to track the flow of untrusted or sensitive data at runtime, enabling detection of injection vulnerabilities, data leaks, and privilege violations. Use when users need to: (1) Track untrusted input propagation through code, (2) Detect SQL injection, XSS, or command injection vulnerabilities, (3) Identify sensitive data leaks, (4) Monitor privilege escalation paths, (5) Perform dynamic taint analysis for security testing. Supports Python, Java, JavaScript, and C/C++ with configurable taint sources and sinks.

Automatically updates a codebase to a new language version, framework version, or library update while ensuring all tests still pass. Use this skill when migrating Python 2→3, upgrading framework versions (React, Django, Angular), updating dependencies, or performing any version migration where tests define correct behavior. The skill analyzes failing tests caused by migration, categorizes errors (import errors, API changes, type errors, behavior changes), proposes systematic fixes, and verifies that test-observable behavior remains unchanged. Triggers when users ask to migrate code versions, upgrade dependencies while keeping tests passing, update framework versions, or perform test-guided version migrations.

Automatically generates executable test cases from model checking counterexample traces. Translates abstract counterexample states and transitions into concrete test inputs, execution steps, and assertions that reproduce property violations. Use when working with model checker outputs (SPIN, CBMC, NuSMV, TLA+, Java PathFinder, etc.) and needing to create regression tests, validate bug fixes, or reproduce verification failures in executable test suites.

Validate API consistency between two versions of Python libraries. Use when you need to compare API behavior, signatures, and exceptions between library versions to identify breaking changes, incompatible modifications, and behavior differences. The skill performs static analysis of Python code, compares function signatures, class definitions, parameter types, return types, and generates a detailed JSON report with breaking changes, warnings, and migration guidance. Supports Python libraries and packages.

Automatically generates regression tests for Python codebases by analyzing changes between old and new code versions and their existing tests. Migrates tests to work with new code, generates tests for new functionality, and creates mocks for external dependencies. Supports unittest and pytest frameworks. Use when refactoring code, adding features, or ensuring backward compatibility.

Compare behavior across multiple versions of programs or repositories. Use when you need to analyze how functionality changes between versions, identify regressions, compare outputs and exceptions, or validate upgrades. The skill compares execution behavior, test results, outputs, exceptions, and observable states across versions, generating detailed reports showing behavioral divergences, potential regressions, added/removed functionality, and areas requiring validation. Supports multiple programming languages and can work with test suites or execution traces.

Generate abstract Control Flow Graph (CFG) representations of programs showing loops, branches, and function calls for static analysis or verification. Use when users need to: (1) Visualize program control flow structure, (2) Generate CFGs for static analysis tools, (3) Create control flow abstractions for formal verification, (4) Analyze program paths and reachability, (5) Document program structure. Supports both function-level (intraprocedural) and program-level (interprocedural) analysis with multiple output formats (textual, DOT/Graphviz, JSON).

Automatically updates regression tests based on interval analysis to maintain coverage of key program intervals. Use when code changes affect value ranges, conditionals, or control flow, and existing tests need updating to maintain interval coverage. Analyzes interval information from updated code, identifies coverage gaps, adjusts test inputs and assertions, removes redundant tests, and generates new tests for uncovered intervals. Supports Python, Java, JavaScript, and C/C++ with various test frameworks (pytest, JUnit, Jest, Google Test).

Profile programs at the function/method level to identify performance hotspots, bottlenecks, and optimization opportunities. Records execution time, memory usage, and call frequency for each interval. Generates actionable recommendations and visualizations. Use when users need to (1) analyze program performance, (2) identify slow functions or bottlenecks, (3) optimize execution time or memory usage, (4) profile Python, Java, or C/C++ programs with test cases or workload scenarios, or (5) generate performance reports with flame graphs and recommendations.

Automatically derives TLA+ properties (invariants, safety, liveness) from natural-language requirements or structured requirement documents. Resolves ambiguities, asks clarifying questions for underspecified requirements, and outputs TLA+-compatible property definitions with semantic explanations. Use when translating system requirements, specifications, or behavioral constraints into formal TLA+ temporal logic properties for verification with TLC model checker.